köken: From volō, volāre (“to fly”). The masculine nominative singular form is derived by syncope from pre-Latin *wolukris, which probably developed by dissimilation from earlier *woluklis or *weluklis, with a suffix ultimately derived from pre-Proto-Italic *-tlis, *-tl-, a variant of the zero-grade of Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr (suffix forming agent nouns), related to Latin -tor. Compare alacer and…